Word: adamses
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Currently, athletes make up 54 percent of Kirkland House and constitute only 5 percent of Adams and Dudley Houses.
City Happenings: Page B-4. In Cambridge, squatters were evicted from land owned by MIT. The city's hands also knocked on unexpecting doors this spring, as Cambridge police arrested a Harvard student who was attending an Adams House party. The arrest raised further questions about the relationship between town...
TWO months before entering Harvard, I received a thick packet which contained lengthy pamphlets detailing Harvard's history, the Core curriculum, the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, the Expository Writing program, the House system, the schedule for freshman week, and countless other tidbits too rich to be digested immediately. Buried amid this...
It stood in sharp relief from the rest of the packet. Where the bulk of the mailing had an air of mindless veneration for this institution (quoting Cotton Mather liberally), Adams' book offered a tale of Harvard's inadequacy--the "chief wonder of education" here being that Harvard did not...
Now, approximately 700 lectures and 70,000 pages later, my mind returns to Henry Adams. Adams was convinced that his education at Harvard--too rooted in present concerns--did not begin to prepare him for his later life. "The attempt of the American of 1800 to educate the American of...